LIS 7610/CSC 7481 Project Part 5: Final Project Report

Last updated: August 17 2011.

The project report should essentially be a written version of what is in your presentation slides. If you write it in Word, it should be easy to import graphs and tables from your slides. You do not need to duplicate information that is already in your batch evaluation report -- just include that entire report as an appendix, and refer to it as necessary.

Describe the problem that you are solving and provide the URL for your project's Web page (which should have the documents that you generated along the way along with this report). [~1 page]
Describe the design of your system, including the interface, the query-time processing, and the indexing process. Don't get too carried away here -- you might try to rewrite the entire system in words, and there is no need for that. If you want, you can always post the code on the Web for the gory details. [3-4 pages]
Describe the design of your user study (generally including: what documents and other system configuration settings you used, what you asked the users to do, how you organized a session, how you collected the data, how you analyzed your results, and what you learned. [3-4 pages]
A summary of what you learned along the way. It might be easiest to organize this as bullet points, elaborating on what is in your slides. [~1 page]
Some appropriate way of ending (e.g., remarks on limitations, one or more suggestions for future work, etc.) [0.5 page]
As an appendix, your batch evaluation report (just for completeness).
As an appendix, your presentation slides (only necessary if they contains things that are not convenient to include in your written report).

The total (excluding appendices) should be 9-10 pages, about 1/3 of which (or so) will likely be figures and tables.

As with all project components, this report will be separately graded but the overall project grade will be holistic (not some formulaic combination of the graded parts).

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Acknowledgement to Doug Oard (LBSC 796/INFM 718R Spring 2011).